Soil sampling goes robotic
Story Date: 10/16/2020

 

Source:  Matthew Wilde, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 10/15/20


On a cold, snowy November day last year, Steve Wallpe watched one of Rogo Ag's SmartCore autonomous robots scoot around his fields taking and bagging soil samples. Two things instantly came to mind, recalls the Fowler, Indiana, farmer. He's glad it wasn't him pulling cores while shivering, and a robot with plenty of power to bore into hard soil at a consistent depth was doing the job.

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